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LAFAYETTE, Colo. (August 26, 2026) - Small satellite manufacturer and mission services provider Blue Canyon Technologies, part of RTXs (NYSE: RTX) Raytheon business, has unveiled its latest spacecraft subsystem, the [] T...

At the heart of this next-gen space telescope lies the parts of old spy satellites.

Doubts about the standard model of cosmology are deepening after a new study identified fundamental problems in a recent analysis that defended the conventional view that the universe is currently undergoing accelerated ...

NASAs Earth-observing satellite missions track dozens of features of a changing planet - aerosols, sea levels, land cover, cloud cover - over years and decades. Sustaining that record for the scientific and operational c...

NASAs Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, encapsulated in its payload fairing, travels from the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility to the SpaceX hangar at Launch Complex 39A at NASAs Kennedy Space Center on Tuesday, Aug...

A newly discovered water dominated exoplanet is in hot-water literally and figuratively, it orbits so close to its parent star it is headed to a fatal collision that will see it devoured.

The ESA's Sentinel satellites captured a 76 sq. km. chunk of ice breaking off from Greenland's Petermann Glacier. They watched the cracks and deformations happen in real time leading up to the calving. While calv...

During the Aug. 12 total solar eclipseoverEurope, scientists aimed to study a long-standing mystery: why the Suns outer atmosphere, the corona, is far hotter than its visible surface.Capturingthe data they neededmeantbei...

I journeyed to the path of totality in Spain to watch the Aug. 12 total solar eclipse with a group of passionate citizen scientists. Here's my story.

Sun-reflecting space mirrors proposed by U.S. startup Reflect Orbital will have an even more devastating effect on the night sky around the world than previously thought, a study has found.

The Roman Space Telescope is designed to directly image exoplanets using complex optomechanical systems developed by the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy

On a morning train commute, this former scientist found a stellar surprise in an old Hubble image.

Since we cannot look into the interiors of stars and planets, we rely on lab experiments to replicate the physical processes that occur there. Led by the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), an international res...

NASA will provide coverage as two astronauts step outside the International Space Station on Tuesday, Sept. 1, to replace a spacecraft navigational aid and complete several maintenance tasks in support of space station o...

On Aug. 26, 1978, cosmonaut and pilot Sigmund Jähn became the first German to fly in space. Here's why it mattered.

This little satellite is doomed.

EDITORS NOTE: This story, originally published in December, was revised Aug. 26, 2026 with an update on a new phase of testing, including video from a recent test run and new images. To help NASA and commercial partners ...

At 17, Jeret Howard raised his right hand to serve his country as a United States Army combat medic in Iraq. This past summer, he raised his right hand again at NASAs Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi....

Saturn's moon Enceladus sports a thick shell of ice surrounding a liquid water ocean. As though scraped by an enormous claw, four parallel cracks slash across its south pole. Each about 500 meters (1,600 feet) deep, ...

Bitreactor's blend of XCOM combat and a smaller-stakes story nails what makes the Star Wars franchise so special.

Bitreactor's blend of XCOM combat and a smaller-stakes story nails what makes the Star Wars franchise so special.

Video: 00:00:31 The Meteosat Third Generation-Imager2 (MTG-I2) satellite, is ready for launch on board an Ariane 6launcher from Europes Spaceport in French Guiana. Lift off is scheduled for 27 August 2026 at 22:10 CEST (...